This topic provides the basic process for submitting content to the GIS Localization team for translation. For 80% and 100% drops, you must release the objects and freeze the publication baselines.
Important:
You must accept or reject change tracking in all topics before submitting content for localization.
About this task
This procedure does not provide the complete process for working with Localization. These are only the steps required in Tridion Docs to prepare for delivery of the content to Localization. If you have questions about the Localization process for content, contact the Localization Project Manager (LPM) for your project.
Procedure
When you are ready to submit your content for the 80% drop to Localization:
Produce a Validator PDF output to ensure that there are no errors and to check for issues such as elements tagged with <b> or <i>, uicontrol and wintitle elements not reused that must be corrected before translation.
Produce your output and make sure that there are no errors.
Release all topics, maps, and images in the publication.
Freeze the publication baseline.
You must freeze the baseline for the 80% drop to ensure that the testers validating the translated content see the translated content and not the English version of updated topics in the output.
For a new project, inform the Localization coordinator to get the user group added to the ServiceUser.
When you need to make changes, create a new version of the publication and then create a new version of any topics, maps, and images that you must modify.
When you’re ready to submit your content for the 100% drop to Localization:
Produce the output and ensure that there are no errors.
Release all topics, maps, and images in the publication.
Freeze the publication baseline.
You must freeze the baseline for the 100% drop to ensure that the testers validating the translated content see the translated content and not the English version of updated topics in the output.
If you need to make changes after the 100% drop before the product release, create a new version of the publication and then create a new version of any topics, maps, and images that you must modify.
Note:
When you have finalized the content for a product release and have delivered it, you must release the version of the publication.
